Google’s Eric Kuan on How to Secure Your Website

Eric Kuan, Webmaster Relations Specialist at Google, joined #SEJLive this week, giving advice on the steps to take to secure your website. Eric also shared online tools and resources to keep track of website security issues, and shed light on what the future holds for SEO. Below is Eric’s live session and the main takeaways from his discussion. Watch more SEJ Live Sessions by following our Facebook page or viewing past sessions. Eric answered questions from the SEJ community on website security and manual actions. He appeared live on our Facebook page and I highly recommend watching the full video: Key Insights From Eric on Website Security and Manual Actions 1. A lot of future technologies will rely on HTTPS. According to Eric, HTTPS provides security and data integrity for your website and users. HTTPS encrypts information passed on between your website and your users’ browsers. So if you’re thinking of making the switch from HTTP to HTTPS, now would be the perfect time to do it. Google has been making the push towards HTTPS, from making it a ranking signal to the recent announcement of Chrome requiring HTTPS for secure data. 2. Make sure you’re updated as soon as possible when your CMS, e-commerce shopping carts, platforms, and plugins announce their latest releases. Other tips from Eric on securing your website include: Follow and keep up with your plugins so you’re alerted when they become unsupported or when a security exploit happens. In that case, you need to either…